Opinions on the name Miles?

[Thelightblueduck]

Never ever had this name as a contender until a week ago.

Kind of irrelevant but strange back story to where I’ve got the name from:

My husband suggested it as we were on our way to the airport a week ago, and a singer on the radio was named Miles and I loved it.

The next day, I went to read a book I bought for my holiday - the main character was named Miles and his mother in the book has my name!

The day after, my husband saw a TikTok of a baby named Miles and the babies surname was my maiden name.

I feel like the universe is sending me a hard sign here that the baby wants to be called Miles 🤣

His name, since before I was even pregnant, was going to be Xander. But something is pulling me towards Miles now and I think I really love the name.
What do you all think of the name? Is it crazy to change his name when I’m 7 months pregnant, on a whim?

Like Myles/Miles , love Milo !
Love Alexander .
Hate Xander.

In the UK Miles is used as a measurement of distance. Like naming a child Kilometres!

One Mile, two Miles…. It looks like a plural

I've got one! Wanted a top 100 name without it being a top 10 (ie, not super common but not 'unique' either). I also think its a name that works for any age.

I wanted 'Xavier' but DH not keen (similar to Xander). We also decided on it through a 'sign from the universe' type scenario when the care package left for us at our babymoon accommodation had a box of Miles tea bags.

That was Niles not Miles

Xander is absolutely awful IMO so I'd pick Miles, which is better, not miles better mins you but better.

I like Alexander with nn Xander, it’s a strong classic name.

Sorry but every Miles I have met has been posh, wet and very very dull. So I’m put off the name by that.

I agree to wait and see what he looks like.

Very dated. Xander is a bit try too hard.

I'm sorry but I don't like it at all, it gives me real debonnair, posh cad type vibes (older, jaguar driving smoothie, or maybe that was just my parents' friends 😂)

@Thelightblueduck its interesting reading all these opinions. Names can sometimes be suggestive of a type of person and in my head from my experiences Miles sounds like they would be a posh toff 😅

A different and unique but actually old name I do like for a boy is Asa. Unfortunately never met anyone to have kids with and now it’s too late but I reckon I’d have chose this for my unborn boy!

I like Miles. Makes me think of Miles in This life - 90s show about lawyers - Miles was a posh trainee barrister. Not a fan of Xander.

@Cakeandusername , same here, and it's why I don't like Delilah but like Anna and Edgar.

As pp mentioned, it does rhyme with Piles and my DH has had the misfortune of being called this many times in his life, or having to hear his name being used as a joke comparing it to the measurement 🙄

DH has also been told a few times that he doesn't suit his name, in that he's not posh, so I do think a lot of people make that connection with the name too.

It does sound nice though and if you like it, that's all that matters :-)

I really like it.

To me, Miles has a bit of a posh, "Red trousers" vibe to it. I'd expect a Miles to be a bit entitled and male chauvinistic.

Xander is posh too, though.

I know only one Miles. he is in his 50s and is a very nice and jolly fellow. He is known as Milo by his closest friends which I like also.

I have warm feelings towards it.

My cousin was called Myles, same name different spelling.

I'm sorry but it's one of those names I really dislike .
But he's not my baby he's yours. So if you both love it use it.

It's 2025, surely Kilometres is more contemporary?

Hardly when Miles is a perfectly normal established name in the UK that no one bats an eyelid towards.

I like it

If I had a child called Miles I would call him Kilometres for short, since a kilometre is only five eighths of a mile.

I love Miles / Myles and only know nice ones!
I actually dislike Xander - and think Alexander is an incredibly dull name.

Alexander Miles?

I love it, and if we’d had a boy, he would have been Miles. As a previous poster has said, it means ‘soldier’.

It’s the name of the main character in one of my favourite book series (Vorkosigan Saga - a science fiction series), but that’s a fairly obscure reference. People may remember the character of Miles from the 90s series Ths Life, or Miles Morales from the recent animated Spider-Man films.